per chevron

English

Left: party per chevron, argent and gules. Right: tierced per chevron, gules, argent, and sable.

Adverb

per chevron (not comparable)

(heraldry) (Partitioned) along the bent line(s) of a chevron, (especially) into two areas (formally party per chevron).
per chevron gules and argent; tierced per chevron; an escutcheon tierced per pale and per chevron

Translations

heraldry: partitioned along the bent line of a chevron

French: (tierced, etc): en chevron, (party per chevron): mantelé (fr) (party per chevron X and Y = Y, mantelé de X)

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